Improvement in cuspadores



1. c. M uLlGAN & 1.l MusKGnovE. Cuspadnres.

Patented March IO. 1874.

' UNITED STATES JOHN C. MILLIGAN, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEV JERSEY, AND JOSEPH MUS PATENT OFFICE.,

GROVE, OF WOODHAVEN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOItS TO LALANCE AND GROSJEAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF `NEYV YORK CITY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUSPADORES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,376, dated March 10, 1874; application tiled December 20, 1872.V

To all whom t may concern: v u

Be it known that we, JOHN O. MILLIGAN, of South Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and JOSEPH MUsGRovE, of Woodhaven, Queens county, New York, have invented' a new and Improved Cnspadore, of which the following is a specification:

The invention will iirst be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of a cuspadore, showing a screw-joint. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away, showing bayonet-joint. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section.

A is the funnel or nozzle shaped prolongaltion ofthe bell-mouthed top B into the interior of the bottom part C, beyond the neck D, said prolongation being extended nearly to thebottom, and so constructed as to conceal most. of the interior space from view. This is to hide as much as can be hidden of the interior, which is too much exposed in the cuspadores of ordinaryr construction; also, to prevent the escape ofthe contents when overturned.

It is designed that the bottom portion shall have as much capacity below the part A when the vessel is turned over upon its side as the capacity below the end of A, when the vessel is upright; also, the same around and below the end of A when the vessel is inverted,

so that, no matter whether it be turned over on its side or completely inverted, the contents will not run out; but I do not limit myself to such proportions. It necessitates the removal of the nozzle or funnel for cleaning out the bottom part, and I therefore make the top detachable from the outer part at the neck, fastening itin any approved way-say by screwing it in, as at E, or by springs F on the top part, expanding under the contracted top of the bottom, a tight-tting collar, G, a bayonetfastening, H, or any other practicable mode.

We are aware that cuspadores or spittoons have been heretofore made in two parts, but the upper Vhas always been loosely iitted into the lower. By making a tight but easily detachable joint, they do not spill out their contents when turned on the side or completely JOHN C. MILLIGAN. JOSEPH MUSGROVE.

Witnesses T. B. M osuna, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

